Love Suffers LongLove is patient with people. The ability to survive a personal

offense.To have the power to retaliate, but

never consider retaliation as an option.

Love is KindGreek term literally means to show

oneself to be useful. Kindness is the perfect compliment to

longsuffering. ◦ While longsuffering is willing to take

anything from anyone, kindness is willing to give anything to meet the needs of others.

Love Does Not Envy“is not jealous” (NASB)Greek term means “to be heated or to

boil.”Love does not “boil over” at the

success or advantages of another.

Love is Not Arrogant“love does not parade itself, is not

puffed up” (NKJV)“love does not brag and is not

arrogant” (NASB)

Love is Not Rude“does not behave rudely” (NKJV)“doth not behave itself unseemly”

(KJV)“does not act unbecomingly” (NASB)

ASCHEMONEO – to act against the scheme.

To go against what is accepted, to stick out, to be inappropriate.

Love Does Not Seek Its Own

Love considers the wants and needs of others.

Love is Not ProvokedPAROXUNO – to spur on, to stimulate,

to stir to anger.

Love does not walk around with a chip on its shoulder. It does not look for reasons to become upset or irritated at personal offenses.

Love Thinks No Evil“does not take into account a wrong

suffered” (NASB)

LOGIZOMAI – a technical term used in commercial dealings for entering a debt on a ledger.

Love does not keep a running account of offenses against itself.

Love “lets things go.”

Love Does Not Rejoice In Iniquity, But Rejoices in the TruthLove finds no pleasure in sin, nor

in reports of the sins of others.Love finds pleasure in truth,

righteousness and good.

Love…Bears All ThingsBelieves All ThingsHopes All ThingsEndures All Things

Love…Bears All ThingsBelieves All ThingsHopes All ThingsEndures All Things

“It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres” (NIV)

“And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”

1 Corinthians 13:13